General Information
The Scout Section is for young people, usually aged between 10½ and 14 years. The Scout Troop is the third Section in the Scout Group. Scouting is about being with friends, as part of a team, participating fully in the adventure and opportunities of life.
Scouts are encouraged to take part in a wide range of activities as part of their programme. “Participation” rather than meeting set standards is the key approach and for the Scout who wants to be recognised for his or her achievements there are a number of Challenges Awards and Activity Badges. Scouts take part in a balanced programme that helps them to find out about the world in which they live, encourages them to know their own abilities and the importance of keeping fit and helps develop their creative talents. It also provides opportunities to explore their own values and personal attitudes. We aim to deliver at least 50% of the programme outdoors doing advertourous activities. From time to time it is expected that Scouts will participate in community based projects.
Being outdoors is important and half the Programme is given over to taking part in both the traditional Scouting skills, such as camping, survival and cooking as well as the wide range of adventurous activities, anything from abseiling to yachting, Ice climbing to Gliding.
Patrols
Scouts borrows a great deal of its structure from the Lord Baden Powell’s experience in the military. The scout section is known as a Troop, with scouts being organised into Patrols. We have four Patrols in our Scout Troop:-
Each scout wears their Patrol badge on their right arm below the District Badge. Each Patrol is made up of around 6-8 scouts of a range of ages and new scouts normally join a patrol in which they know at least one person. Each Patrol is led by a Patrol Leader (PL) helped by an Assistant Patrol Leader (APL); these are scouts who have demonstrated their competence, good behaviour and been a good example to those in the Troop.
Scout Programme
All Scout sections rely upon a ‘training’ scheme in the form of badges to track progress of the scouts and to provide a feeling of achievement. However, scouting is not just about badges, the ‘games’ and adventurous activities are very important to scouting, not just because they are enjoyable, but because they are also important in the young persons development.
We run a varied program of activities including (but not limited to) cooking, pioneering, nautical skills, first aid and of course water activities!
Nights Away
Nights away from home make up a large part of the Scout programme and help young people gain independence and spend time with friends. At 2nd Beeston Sea Scouts, we usually go away for at least two or three weekend camps a year and a week long camp either the first or second week of the summer holidays plus many overnight activities through out the year. It is expected that most Scouts will attend at least one weekend camp and the summer camp if they can.
Sea Scouts
“I’ve heard about 2nd Beeston Sea Scouts, what is the Sea Scout part?” Sea Scouts are part of the same Scouting movement, but with a particular emphasis on boating activities. We are a unique Scout Group in the Nottinghamshire area, not only are we a Sea Scout group, but we are a Royal Navy recognised Sea Scout group. We offer water activities to all our sections all year round, but our Scouts also get to utilise our river base, Barton Island, from April-September every year. This gives Scouts a wider range of outdoor activities, and plenty of opportunities to develop skills in kayaking, canoeing, powerboating and sailing. We also dress differently to other Scout troops, and parts of our meeting are more ‘regimental’ such as the opening and closing flag ceremonies.
Application form
We’re sorry, but at the moment until we can recruit more adult volunteers, we are unable to take on any new Scouts into the Scouts Section as we are at maximum capacity therefore we are currently operating a waiting list policy.
We have had young people on our waiting list for over a year, as we must prioritise movement through the sections. We cannot give you a timescale on when we would be likely to accept your son/daughter into our Scout troop. Whilst we do not wish to turn anyone away from our troop, you may wish to look for an alternative Scout troop, and if so you can do so here: https://www.swnotts-scouts.org.uk/groups/
Alternatively if you are happy to wait, please fill out the form below, and we’ll add your child(ren) to our waiting list.
Application form
